09 - January's Notes

Here is a list of articles about tech that I found interesting during the month of January. Enjoy!

Nodejs / Typescript / Javascript

• A comparison of execution time of operations in web assembly in different engines (spoiler alert, node beats bun)

• The State of JS 2022 is here

• Fast-check now compatible with vitest

• Typescript 5.0 beta is here (with Decorator out of experimental and huge perf improvements but with a lot of breaking changes ;))

• Fetch API sends Type error upon network error :')

Rust

• Do we need a Rust standard ? (where you learn each new version of rust is compiled against every crate from crates.io and every Rust project from github)

Dev / Tooling

• The 12 bits rainbow palette

• Logseq, a great open-source alternative to Obsidian, that is usable for free in a professional context

Craft / Architecting

• You want modules, not micro-services, an interesting take on the curent micro-service trend and its drawbacks

• Why you should not (most probably) use dependency injection frameworks

• The 8 fallacies of distributed systems

Testing

• Interesting article that encourages getting rid of Unit test to focus on Integration tests

• A schema library for gherkin data table ( for node.js)

Organization / Agility

• Tech Debt Friday, a team feedback on their tech debt management

• 10 Misconceptions about Agile Product Teams (so many good advices in there)

• Conventional comments, a convention for doing PR Comments

Lead in tech

• Feedback on Spotify squad model from Jeremiah Lee (podcast)

Fun

• CatGPT because why not?